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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
World's first portable, handheld cellular telephone credited to Martin Cooper. Motorola's DynaTAC 'Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage' included many features:
- let you talk for 30 minutes
- 33 x 4.5 x 9 cm in dimension
- boasted eight hours of standby time
- took 10 hours to recharge
- LED display and
- memory to store thirty "dialing locations". It hit the market pricing at $3,995 in 1983 dollars. -
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Evolution of the Mobile Phone
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Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
The MicroTAC introduced an innovative new "flip" design, where the "mouthpiece" folded over the keypad, although the "mouthpiece" was actually located in the base of the phone, along with the ringer. -
Motorola International 3200
The first digital hand-sized mobile telephone. -
Motorola StarTAC
The first clamshell cellular phone, manufactured by Motorola. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell. Approximately 60million were sold worldwide. -
Nokia 5510
This phone featured a full QWERTY keyboard. It could also store up to 64mb of music. -
Nokia 8310
This phone contained premium features not normally found on handsets of the time, such as Infrared, a fully functional calendar and a FM Radio. -
PalmOne Treo 600
One of the “it” gadgets from 2003-2004.This mobile phone contained features like having three or four days between charges and a successful merger of phone, PDA, and camera made this the business tool of choice. -
Motorola Razor V3
When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry. -
HTC Universal
This was the first 3G Pocket PC phone at HTC and the first to come with Windows Mobile. -
LG Chocolate KG800
The KG800 is a 'slider' style phone that reveals heat-sensitive touch buttons on its face, which activate upon sliding the phone open. One of the first well-designed phones made for mass market use. -
Nokia E63
Billed as the budget business smartphone. -
iPhone 5
thinnest, lightest, fastest iPhone ever. It is the sixth generation of the iPhone and succeeds the iPhone 4S. The phone is a slimmer, lighter model that introduces a higher-resolution, 4-inch screen to the series with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. -
Nokia 8210
This phone was loved for its customizable design with removable Xpress-on covers, but hated for its screen fade. -
iPhone
The original iPhone was released in June 2007 with an auto-rotate sensor, a multi-touch sensor that allowed multiple inputs while ignoring minor touches, a touch interface that replaced the traditional QWERTY keyboards, and many other features that helped to give Apple an almost instant healthy market share on its release.
